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Show GANGS OF PICKPOCKETS I ! WORKING IN SALT LAKE Police Issue Warning to Residents to Be on Their Guard. Salt Lake, Juno 15. "Warn travel I 1 crs to beware of a couple of gangs J of pickpockets who are working I around depot platforms and on tho j street cars running to the depots.' I That was the order that Lieutenant ' R. D. Shannon of the police depart- mcnt issued Monday night after two losses by tbe swift-fingered gentry had been reported to him. i One man. who did not give his name, lost $35. He was Jostled bv a stranger strang-er while on a Rio Grande depot car on his way to catch a train. He thought nothing of the crowding until he not- i , Iced that the man, who stepped off at West Fifth South street, was acting suspiciously. Then he felt for his pocket pock-et book. It was gone. Within a few minutes afterwards i Fred .Johnson of Rock Springs Wyo I reported that his traveling companion had lost $S to a smooth young man who jostled them aboard a train at i the Rio Grande depot. |